I’ve built myself a new controller – Bergamot, which is my first controller based on a touchscreen. New controller – again? I never do things for the sake of doing them. Bergamot is purely a result of frustration with Tannin 2. When I’ve built Tannin 2, I’ve been using it happily for quite some time. Then, […]
Yesterday I’ve released OpenDeck v2.1.1. Time for another OpenDeck release feature roundup! There’s been a few releases on GitHub since v2.0, however I don’t really write here about every release since most of them contain only a handful of fixes and new features. This post covers all the news since v2.0. Pitch bend Pitch bend […]
Last time I’ve built a custom MIDI controller for someone was quite a while ago. Actually, I’ve been so focused on OpenDeck in the last few years I barely even mention to anyone that I do actually build entire controllers as well – and why bother? Most of the conversations about that look almost exactly […]
OpenDeck software has finally reached a new milestone: v2.0, so in this post, I’ll write about new features in it. MIDI channels Until now, assignment of MIDI channels was only possible globally, per MIDI message. For instance, you could define MIDI channels for MIDI notes, for MIDI CC messages etc, but not individually per component. […]
So far, OpenDeck has been really good (IMO, at least) at handling the common components used to build MIDI controllers. What I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time already is to support displays on OpenDeck. Displays can be quite useful to give you visual representation of what is happening on the device, which […]
Last time I talked about features in OpenDeck was, well, long time ago. I have released OpenDeck firmware v1.5.0 so it’s time to fix this! NRPN Many people have been asking me about NRPN support on OpenDeck. I’ve never used it, so I haven’t implemented it before, but now OpenDeck official supports it. For those who […]
There’s an old saying which goes “if you can’t beat them – join them”. That kind of sums up latest OpenDeck development efforts. Selling OpenDeck boards Selling pre-assembled OpenDeck boards turned out to be not-so-profitable business. Actually, I was losing money on it. Once I’ve added up all the ridiculous taxes, import fees, PayPal fees, […]
It’s Tuesday, October 7nd, 2014. I moved back to Zagreb to continue my studies just few days ago after being back at home for a year. At this point, all I’m thinking about is how to sell my custom MIDI controllers, but that isn’t working so well, mostly because there aren’t many people willing […]
It’s now been almost a month since I published the long-awaited post about OpenDeck v1.0. To say that I received overwhelming amount of responses would be an understatement. So far, OpenDeck has been featured on Synthtopia, AskAudio, GearNews, AudioZine and many other places I forgot to mention. A sincere thank you goes to every supporter […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that OpenDeck project is dead, as well as this blog – after all, it’s been more than a year since the last update. While it’s true that in the past year I haven’t had much time to work on the platform, last couple of months have been full of development […]